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12. Trees eame through last winter, for the most part, in good condition. 
A few apple trees were root killed. The blossoms, however, on cherry and 
plum trees were badly injured, and there is but a small crop of these fruits 
this year. Small fruits also came through the winter well, and there is an 
abundant crop of currants, raspberries and strawberries. 
OREGON. 
BY E. L. SMITH, HOOD RIVER, CHAIRMAN. 
Apples, pears, prunes and cherries do well in all parts of the State where 
the elevation does not exceed 3,000 feet, while peaches and grapes attain their 
greatest perfection in southern Oregon, and in the hot tributary valleys of 
the Columbia river east of the Cascade range. 
More than one hundred commercial evaporators were erected in 1898, and 
the Secretary of State Board of Horticulture furnishes the following: A care- 
ful estimate places this year’s output of cured prunes at 700 car loads of 
24,000 pounds, equaling 16,800,000 pounds; evaporated apples, 6 cars, 150,000 
pounds; fresh or green apples, 500 carloads, 11,250,000 pounds; fresh or green 
prunes, 150 carloads, 3,750,000 pounds; fresh pears, 100 carloads, 2,500,000 
pounds; fresh plums, 75 carloads, 1,875,000 pounds; strawberries, 75 car- 
loads, not weighed, a total of 1,606 carloads of green and dried fruits. The 
cured prune crop alone at three and one-eighth cents per pound, amounts to 
-$525,000, and dried apples at five and one half cents equals $82,500. As a 
by-product of the latter, 20 tons of apple peelings, heretofore thrown away, 
have been used in making an excellent article of jelly, and, in addition 
this season, small apples have been utilized as “chops” and exported. 
This year, 1S99, there wall not be more than fifty per cent of last year’s pro- 
duction. This is accounted for by the fact of a large crop last year and 
a very unfavorable spring for fertilization this year. 
Our most troublesome insects are the San Jose scale and the codling moth. 
Lime, sulphur and salt are found to be a specific for the former and frequent 
spraying with arsenites of soda gives us about ninety per cent of sound 
apples. 
No state grows fruits of greater excellence than Oregon, but we are forced 
to dispose of too great a proportion of them in a raw condition, and frequently 
in unwilling markets. We evaporate many prunes, but we should manufact- 
ure other fruit products and there is a lack of information as to the best pro- 
cesses, and the American Pomological Society could do nothing that would 
help us so much as to prepare a manual giving us this information, together 
with description and cost of the necessary apparatus for the economical 
manufacture of all commercial fruit products. 
NORTHERN OREGON. 
BY EMILE SCHANNO, THE DALLES. 
1. Fruit Sections— The best are along the Columbia river and its tributar- 
ies, and along some of the creek bottoms that enter into the John Day and 
DesChutes rivers, and the foot hills along the Cascade range. 
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